"Sure. Have you got any mal bits around? I find them useful for this sort of thing."

:...I am not sure what you mean. Parts of Changecreatures? We do not keep those or bring them back to the Vale, I have never heard of them being useful before except for teaching younglings how to recognize the creatures. ...I suppose we could send out some of the scouts to collect the bodies of the ones we killed recently, and you can see if any of them are useful?: 

"That'd help a lot. I can enchant a regular weapon but it's not my specialty."

Nod. :Do you have anything with you that is made of Changecreature body parts? We could have a mage look at it, in case that helps them recognize what would be useful to bring back here. I do not really want a pile of entire corpses in the Vale, they smell.: 

"So valid. The pike's covered in mal teeth. Don't touch, it's poisonous as all get out."

The scout will call over a handful of experienced mages - not Wingsong, he's busy apparently - to examine the pike. 

...It does look magical. It looks like the sort of magical that could be from a Changecreature, though it would be an unusual kind, and doesn't match with any specific kinds. 

:What did the Changecreature that this came from look like?: the scout asks Aadhya. 

"Most of the teeth are off an argonet but the little barbs were from this, like, cactus porcupine eel thing."

:Huh. I am not sure we have either of those here. We will try to bring back teeth and claws and - spines? - from Changecreatures where those are innately magical.: 

It's going to be a bit before they bring back anything, though. The teenagers will be provided with a wide array of snacks from the hertasi, who have been warned to be more visible about it and are somewhat grumpily complying. 

"Teeth claws spines, venom sacs, bones, scales, particularly strong sinew and guts - ooh -" snacks!!!!

Snacks!!! They are widely varied and include platters of fresh fruits and leafy vegetables and edible flowers of a dozen varieties arranged in beautiful patterns, and finger-sized pickled fish spread out on a plate in the shape of a flower, and elaborately prepared morsels of ground nuts and meat wrapped in pastry with spices and herbs, and little urns of half a dozen fragrant flavors of soup.

(These youngsters look underfed and the hertasi are personally offended.) 

The youngsters appreciate the hertasi very much now that they aren't sneaking around like shadow-kobolds or something. Om nom nom nom.